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SUMMARY:Slouching towards Caracas\, Venezuela: Contested Fisherman Identit
 y during the 2025 U.S. Bombings in the Southern Caribbean - Dr Oliver Antc
 zak 
DTSTART:20260317T131000Z
DTEND:20260317T140000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Jones
DESCRIPTION:This presentation investigates the ongoing U.S. bombing campai
 gn in the Southern Caribbean and the contested identity of its victims. Si
 tuated between Washington’s “narcoterrorist” branding and Caracas’
 s “humble fisherman” idealisation\, the study employs a long-term arch
 aeological and historical perspective to critique these binary tropes. Usi
 ng digital ethnography to synthesise social media discourse and combining 
 it with heritage research\, we show how the manipulation of fishermen's id
 entities has served to legitimise the first steps of a military interventi
 on eventually justified by oil interests. We propose the concept of ‘Sch
 rödinger’s Fishermen’ to centre the agency of local fishermen within 
 the conflict. This work reveals that these identity politics instrumentali
 zed regionally and historically important practices to justify extrajudici
 al violence\, resulting in 51 fatalities across the region thus far.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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